When I was growing up, magnets were the enemy of technology. They could erase your homework on a floppy disk, make your tube TV's colors go funny, and most of the time you probably wanted to avoid ...

THE HUMBLE magnet may not seem to belong alongside steel, microchips and oil as a chess piece in the great diplomatic game. But on April 4th, as part of its retaliation against America’s tariffs, ...

Engineers have discovered an unexpected link between two very different realms of physics: the behavior of electrons in ...

Strong magnets tend to be large and power-hungry, but a new design has produced a powerful magnet that fits in the palm of ...

We've seen a few hybrid tablet stylus/ballpoint pens kicking around, but the Polar Pen, with its barrel made out of rare earth magnets, takes the absolute biscuit. Michelle Starr Science editor ...